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‘Mormon Land’: Deconstructing Carthage — Why Joseph was slain and why it was about more than religion

Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints learn early on about the murder of their faith’s founder, Joseph Smith. They know that, on June 27, 1844 (179 years ago this month), he and ...
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‘Mormon Land’: Did Joseph Smith practice polygamy? What the evidence shows and why it matters.

In 2014, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints published an official essay detailing Joseph Smith’s marriages to multiple women. After decades of insisting otherwise, the Community of Christ ...
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‘Joseph Smith’ is a clear-eyed biography of the Mormon founder

Perhaps a true-to-life biography of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon Church, can never be written. Smith’s claims to accessing the divine were too outlandish, his embrace of polygamy too ...